Facsimile editions of books on Naval Architecture, Rigging and Seamanship printed 1800 – 1919

• Steel, David ed.: The Elements and Practice of Naval Architecture. Illustrated with a series of thirty-eight large draughts and numerous smaller engravings.
  P. Steel, London, 1805. 2 vols, 4to, 21,5×16 cm, fp, xvi, 438, (139) pp, ill., 9 plates & folio, 38 plates, some folding.

  Facsimile: Sim Comfort Associates, London, 1977 (facs., 500 copies).

  Second edition was published in 1812 and third in 1822.

  Part of this work is taken almost verbatim from the anonymus The Shipbuilder's Repository, 1788. The Table of Contents and Description of the Plates are available.
  References: Private Collection*.

• Steel, David: The Shipwright's Vade-mecum: a clear and familiar introduction to the Principles and Practice of Ship-Building: including the more complex rules of arithemetic made use of in that art; with so much of the principles of practical geometry and mensuration as are required in the practice thereof. Also, a description of the sliding rule; rules for the admeasurement of timber; with several useful tables, and tables of dimensions, &c Illustrated with four large draughts, fitted up separately, and numerous smaller figures.
  P. Steel, London, 1805. 2 vols, +8vo, 17,5x9,5 cm, viii, 344 pp, ill., 8 adv. pp & folio, 84×28 cm, 4 plates.
  Facsimile: Jean Boudriot Publications, Rotherfield, 1995.J

  One plate with sheer draught, half breadth and body plans of a 74-gun ship and three plates with plank expansion & deck plan; inboard works of a 333-ton merchant ship & a 19 feet long boat. Explanations of termes used in ship-building, pp 80-143.
  References: Private Collection*; Essex & Peabody Museum*; NMM* (plates); Cruising Assoc.; Thulin 67:793.

• (Bogeman, Lars): Föreskrift vid nybyggnaden af en öppen canon-slup, byggd af furu på cravell.
  Peter Sohm, Stockholm, 1808. -8vo, 15,5×9,5 cm, 15 pp.
  Facsimile: Försvarets reprocentral, Stockholm, 1977.

  Specifications for a carvel built gun-boat of pine wood.

• Lever, Darcy: The Young Sea Officers Sheet Anchor; or, a key to the leading of rigging, and to practical seamanship.
  For John Richardson and Others, London, 1808 (1st). 4to, 19×15,5 cm, xii, 120 pp, 110 plates.
  Facsimile: Charles E. Lauriat, Boston, 1930 (500 copies). Reprinted by the Ship Model Society of Rhode Island from the first edition, London, 1808, with the appendix from the second London edition 1819.

  With an 8 pp Dictionary of Sea Terms at the end. Some copies bear the imprint Leeds.

  Other editions 1819, 1827, 1835, 1843, 1853, 1858 and 1863.
  References: Private Collection*.

• Bourdé de Villehuet, Jacques: Le Manoeuvrier, ou Essai sur la théorie et la pratique des mouvements du navire et des évolutions navales. Nouvelle édition, augmentée d'un appendice, contenant les principes fondamentaux de l'arrimage, par le meme auteur; suive des Exercices et Manoeuvres du Canon à bord des vaisseaux du Roi, et du Mode d'Éxercice des Officiers et des Equipages.
  Bachelier, Paris, 1814. 8vo, 15×8,5 cm, xvi, 464 pp, 11 plates.
  Facsimile: Eds du Layet, Levandou, 1987. (4), xvi, 464 pp, 11 plates + 33 plates from P.C. Caussé's L'Album du marin, 1836.

  Polak gives incorrectly 462 pp.

  First edition 1765. This is the first edition to include an appendix with Groignard's treatise on stowage. A glossary of terms is also included. David Steel drew heavily upon this treatise.
  References: Private Collection*; Kungl. Örlogsmannasällskapet, Karlskrona; Polak 1122.

• Burney, William: A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine, being, a copius Explanation of the Technical terms and Phrases usually Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Machinery, Movements, and Military as well as Naval, Operations of Ships: with such parts of Astronomy, and Navigation, as will be Useful to Practical Navigators. Illustrated with a Variety of Modern Designs of Shipping, etc. together with separate views of the Masts, Yards, Sails, and Rigging. To which is annexed, A Vocabulary of French Sea-phrases and Terms of Art, Collected from the Best Authorities. Originally Compiled by William Falconer.
  1815. 4to, xvii, 708, 88 pp, 35 plates.
  Facsimile: MacDonald and Jane's, London, 1974.
• Glover, George: Ship-Building.
  Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, London, 1816. 4to, (83) pp, 20 plates, some folding.
  Facsimile: David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1970.

  In the second part of Volume XXXII of Rees's Cyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.

  Very similar to Steel's The Elements and Practice of Naval Architecture. While Steel makes his calculations for a 80-gun ship, Glover uses a 74-gun ship.
  References: Private Collection*; N.B. Harte: Rees's Clocks Watches Chronometers and Naval Architecture: A Note. Maritime History, Vol. 3 (1973), pp 92-94.

• (Steel, David ed.): The Art of Rigging; containing an alphabetical Explanation of the Terms, Directions for the most Minute operations, and the method of progressive rigging; with full and correct tables of the dimensions and quantities of every part of the Rigging of all Ships and Vessels. Illustrated with numerous engravings. The Third Edition: Considerably enlarged and improved; with additional tables, expressly adapted for merchant-shipping.
  Printed for Steel, Goddard, and Co, London, 1818 (3rd). 8vo, 16×8,5 cm, viii, 1-60, 59*-60*, 61-136, (2) pp, 25 tables, 11 fold. plates.
  Facsimile: Fisher Nautical, Brighton, 1974.

  First edition 1794 as part of The Elements and Practise of Seamanship and Rigging.
  References: Private Collection*; National Maritime Museum*; Marinens Bibliotek, Copenhagen; NHSM; NUC.

• Lever, Darcy: The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship. With an appendix containing several figures illustrative of novelties and improvements in rigging &c&c&c.
  Sold by John Richardson, London, 1819 (2nd). 8vo, xiv, 124 pp, 113 plates.
  Facsimile: Edward W. Sweetman, New York, 1955.
  Facsimile: Edward W. Sweetman, New York, 1963.
  Facsimile: Higginson Book Co., Salem, c1995.

  First published in 1808, other editions 1835, 1853 and 1858.
  References: Private Collection*; British Library; Cruising Assoc.; Essex - Peabody Museum; Francis Edwards 723:1105.

• Lever, Darcy: The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor: or, a Key to the Leading of Rigging, and to Practical Seamanship. … With an appendix, containing several figures illustrative of novelties and improvements in rigging &c&c&c.
  Matthew Carey & Sons, Philadelphia, (1819). 4to, (xiv), 124 pp, 113 plates.
  Facsimile: Charles E. Lauriat, Boston, 1938 (300 copies). With a (6) pp introduction by Captain Ernest H. Pentecost.
  Microfilm: Early American Imprints. Second Series.

  Brewington assigns 110 pp to this edition.

  First published in 1808. This is first Philadelphia edition from the second London edition.
  References: SSHM* (1938 ed.); Essex - Peabody Museum; NUC; Shaw & Shoemaker 48484.

• Loon, F. N. van: Beschouwing van den Nederlandschen scheepsbouw met betrekking tot deszelfs seilaadje.
  De Wed. A. Loosjes, Haarlem, 1820 (1st). 8vo, iv, 79 pp, 2 plates.
  Facsimile: Lykele Jansma, Buitenpost, 1980.

  Another edition in 1842.
  References: Private Collection*.

• Korth, Joh. Wilh. David: Die Schiffbaukunst oder die Kunst, den Bau der Kriegs-, Kauffahrtei- und anderer Schiffe nach theoretischen und practischen Regeln auszuführen. Nebst Anweisungen zur Aus- und Zurüstung der Schiffe. Nach den vorzüglichsten Quellen in diesem Zweige bearbeitet.
  In der Paulischen Buchhandlung, Berlin, 1826. 2 vols, 8vo, 15,5×8,5 cm, iv, 476 pp, 45 plates & atlas of 16 plates.
  Facsimile: Horst Hamecher, Kassel, 1980.

  The copy in the library of the Altonaer Museum, Hamburg, is the only known copy in a public library in West Germany.

  Second edition 1827.
  References: Private Collection*; National Maritime Museum*.

• Sauvage, Louis: Traité pratique d'architecture navale du commerce a l'usage des ouvriers charpentiers.
  Robert, Paris, (c1830). Folio, 60 plates.
  Facsimile: Editions des Quatre Seigneurs, Grenoble, 1981.

  References: Private Collection*; Polak 10896bis.

• O-Scanlan, D. Timoteo: Diccionario maritimo espanol.
  Imprenta Real, Madrid, 1831.
  Facsimile: Museo Naval, Madrid, 1974. 1100 pts.

• Klawitter, Gustav David: Vorlege-Blätter für Schiff-Bauer.
  Der Königlich technischen Deputation für Gewerbe, Berlin, 1835. 4to, 26×15 cm, (4), 30 pp, 12 plates.

  Schiffbautechnischen Gesellschaft, Hamburg, 1953. A4, (2), (2), 30 pp, 12 plates reduced from 1:48 to 1:72.
  Facsimile: Horst Hamecher, Kassel, 1978.

  References: Private Collection*; HSMK*; Not in GV.

• Loon, F. N. van: Handleiding tot den burgerlijken scheepsbouw, met 20 platen.
  H. Brandenburgh, Workum, 1838 (1st). 8vo, (4), 143 pp & atlas of 20 folio plates.
  Facsimile: Lykele Jansma, Buitenpost, 1980. 8vo, (16), 143 pp, & atlas of 20 plates.

  A second edition with the life of the author appeared in 1843.
  References: Private Collection*.

• Harboe, C.L.L.: Dansk Marine-Ordbok.
  1839. 8vo, x, (2), 504 pp, ill.
  Facsimile: Høst & Søn, København, 1979.
• McKay, Lauchlan: The Practical Ship-Builder: Containing the Best Mechanical and Philosophical Principles for the Construction Different Classes of Vessels, and the Practical Adaption of their Several Parts, with Rules Carefully Detailed.
  Collins Keese & Co, New York, 1839. Oblong 4to, 17×20 cm, (2), 107, (4) pp, ill., 7 fold. plates.
  Facsimile: Richard C. McKay, New York, 1940. 250 copies.
  Facsimile: MacDonald and Jane, London, 1974.

  The author who was practical shipbuilder and carpenter of the U.S. Navy, was probably the brother of Donald McKay.
  References: Private Collection*.

• Dana, Richard Henry: The Seaman's Friend, Containing a Treatise on Practical Seamanship, with Plates; A Dictionary on Sea Terms; Customs and Usages of the Merchant Service; Laws Relating to the Practical Duties of Master and Mariners.
  Thomas Groom & Co, Boston, 1845 (4th). 8vo, viii, (4), 13-223 pp, 4 plates.
  Facsimile: Library Editions, New York, 1970.
  Facsimile: Macdonald and Jane, London, 1974.

  The first edition was published in 1841.

  Essex - Peabody Museum, NUC and BM have Charles C. Little & James Brown, Boston as publishers.
  References: Private Collection*; Essex - Peabody Museum; British Library; NUC.

• Funch, D.H.: Dansk marine-ordbog.
  Bianco Luno, København, 1846 & 1852. 2 vols, 4to, (10), 171 pp, 67 plates & 152 pp.
  Facsimile: Høst & Søn, København, 1976. With an introduction by Jørgen Teisen.
• Biddlecombe, George: The Art of Rigging; containing an Alphabetical Explanation of Terms and Phrases, and directions for operations; to which are added, tables of the relative strength of chain and hempen cables; also, the method of progressive rigging, Together with Copius Tables of the Quantities and Dimensions of the Standing and Running Rigging, expressly adapted for merchant-shipping and yachts. Illustrated with fifteen Steel Engravings. A new edition, revised and re-compiled by George Biddlecombe ...
  Charles Wilson, London, 1848. 8vo, 17×9,5 cm, frontisp., xii, 136 pp (incl. some fold. tables), 14 plates, some folding.
  Reprint: Marine Research Society No 8, Salem, 1925. 8vo, 18×10 cm, xii, 155 pp, incl. 17 plates. [900 copies]. With an introduction by Ernest H. Pentecost. Corrections made to the work by Captain Biddlecombe have been incorporated in this edition.
  Reprint: Edward W. Sweetman, New York, 1969 and 1974 (facs. of the 1925 edition). 8vo, xx, 155 pp, ill., 11 plates.

  A reworking of Steel's The Elements and practice of Rigging and Seamanship first published 1794.
  References: Private Collection*; NMM*; Brown 438; BM; Scott 676; NUC; RCA Bibl; Witt 34.

• Bobrik, Eduard: Handbuch der Praktischen Seefahrtskunde. 2. Band 2. Abteilung. Schifferkunde, oder Stereometrie; Statik und Hydrostatik; Dynamik und Hydrodynamik; Schiffsgebäudekunde, Zurüstungskunde, Manövrierkunde, Ankerkunde.
  Julius Fröbel & Comp., Leipzig, 1848. 4 vols, 8vo, xv, 816 pp & xi, 818-1808 pp & x, 1809-2688 pp & viii, 488 pp, 37 fold. plates.
  Facsimile: Horst Hamecher, Kassel, 1978. 2 vols, 8vo.
  Facsimile: Vom Tauwerk und seiner Zubereitung zur Taakelasche. Heinemann, Norderstedt, 1975. Reprint of pp 2622-2637.
  Facsimile: Vom Tauwerk und seiner Zubereitung zur Taakelasche. Ed. Maritim, Hamburg, 1988. Reprint of pp 2622-2637.

  References: Private Collection*; GV.

• Dana, Richard Henry: The Seaman's Friend; Containing a Treatise on Practical Seamanship, with Plates; A Dictionary of Sea Terms; Customs and Usages of the Merchant Service; Laws Relating to the Practical Duties of Master and Mariners.
  Thomas Groom & Son, Boston, 1851 (6th rev. and corr.). 8vo, viii, (4), 13-225 pp (incl. 2 pp adv.), 5 plates.
  Facsimile: Delmar, New York, 1979. 23 cm, ix, 225 pp. Scholaris Facsimiles & Reprints Volume 330. With an introduction by Robert D. Madison.

  The first edition was published in 1841.
  References: New Bedford Whaling Museum; Univ. of Illinois; NUC; Caravan 249.

• Fincham, John: A History of Naval Architecture, to which is prefixed, an Introductory Dissertation on the Application of Mathematical Science to the Art of Naval Construction.
  Whittaker and Co., London, 1851. +8vo, 19×11,5 cm, lxxiv, 415 pp, 58 plates.
  Facsimile: Scolar Press, London,1979. With a xi pp introduction by John Leather.

  58 finely engraved plates from the era of galleys, hull plans, ships of the line in the reigns of Elizabeth to George the Fourth, sterns, timbers and up to sections of steam auxiliaries built in 1849.
  References: Private Collection*; Krigsarkivet, Stockholm; The Mariners' Museum; Essex - Peabody Museum; RCA.

• Fincham, John: An Introductory Outline to the Practice of Shipbuilding; Being the Substance of 3 Lectures Delivered to the Students of the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, between 1812 and 1830 … General observations on the combination of the different parts, on materials, on the structure of timber and a Vocabulary …
  1851. 8vo, 150 pp, 6 fold. plates.
  Facsimile: Ship Model Society of Rhode Island, Providence, 1933. 100 copies.

  References: Private Collection*; Francis Edwards 723:1088; Tuttle 56:78.

• Fincham, John: A Treatise on Masting Ships & Mast Making; Explaining their principles and practical operations, the mode of forming and combining made-masts, etc. etc. etc. Originally designed for the use of the students at the Royal Navy College, and at the late School of Naval Architecture. By John Fincham … Third edition, considerably enlarged, illustrated with large Copper-plate Engravings.
  Whittaker and Co., London, 1854 (3rd enl.). 2 vol, 8vo, 20×11 cm, xx, 338 pp, (2) adv. pp & folio, 24 plates.
  Facsimile: Conway Maritime Press, London, 1982.

  First edition 1829 and second 1843.

  Further enlarged to include masting of screw steamships.
  References: Private Collection*; National Maritime Museum*; Krigsarkivet, Stockholm; Marinens Bibliotek, Copenhagen; Essex - Peabody Museum (text only); Cruising Association; Maggs 1930/RCA Bibl.

• Brady, William N.: The Kedge-Anchor; or, Young Sailors' Assistant. Appertaining to the Practical Evolutions of Modern Seamanship, Rigging, Knotting, Splicing, Blocks, Purchases, Running-Rigging, and other miscellaneous matters, applicable to ships of war and others. Illustrated with seventy engravings. Also, Tables of Rigging, Spars, Sails, Blocks, Canvass, Cordage, Chain and Hemp Cables, Hawsers, etc. etc., relative to every class of vessels. ... Ninth edition. Improved and enlarged, with additional matter, plates, and tables.
  R.L. Shaw, New York and Trübner & Co., London, 1857 (9th). 8vo, 17,5×9,5 cm, fp, 400 pp, 70 ill., 31 plates.
  Facsimile: Hugginson Book Company, Salem, 199_.

  First edition 1841 with the title: The Naval Apprentice's Kedge Anchor.
  References: Private Collection*; Ten Pound Island Book Co*; Brown 228; Pyke 43:6.

• Pilaar, Jan Carel & Mossel, G. P. J. ed.: Handleiding tot de kennis van het tuig, de masten, zeilen, enz. van het schip; Door J.C. Pilaar, … Derde Druk, aanmerkelijk verbetered, vermeerderd en geheel omgewerkt door G.P.J. Mossel, … met platen.
  de Wed. G. Hulst van Keulen, Amsterdam, 1858 (3rd). 8vo, 17×9 cm, xxxviii, 535 pp, ill., 10 fold. plates.
  Facsimile: Fontes Pers, Amsterdam, 1974. =Monumenta Nautica Historica Selecta deel 3.

  First edition by Pilaar alone in 1826.
  References: Private Collection*.

• Steinhaus, Carl Ferdinand: Die Schiffbaukunst in ihrem ganzen Umfange erläuternd dargestellt. Erster Theil: Die Theorie der Schiffbaukunst. Zweiter Theil: Die Praktik der Schiffbaukunst.
  P. Salomon & Co, Hamburg, 1858. 8vo, 20×11 cm, (6), 185 pp, 6 fold. plates & (4), 170 pp, 4 fold. plates.
  Facsimile: H. Hamecher, Kassel, 1977.

  References: Private Collection*.

• Nares, George Strong: Seamanship: including names of principal parts of a ship, directions for sailing a ship, glossary of sea terms, etc. Second edition. With upwards of 350 illustrations from drawings by J. Murray, jun. Used on board H.M. Training Ship Brittania, by Sanction of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
  James Griffin, Portsea, 1862 (2nd). 23 cm, 230 pp, 4 adv. pp, 105 plates.
  Facsimile: Gresham Books, Old Woking, 1979. 8vo, 17,5×10 cm, xii, 224, (4) pp, ill., 125 plates, (6) pp adv.

  First edition 1860 with the title The Naval Cadet's Guide.
  References: Private Collection*; HSMK.

• Etroyat, Adrien de: Traité élémentaire d'architecture navale. Premiere parite: plan du navire; deuxieme partie: calculs.
  Mallet-Bachelier, Paris, 1863 (2nd). 4to, xii, 184 pp & atlas, 42×56,5 cm, 29 plates.
  Facsimile: Omega, Nice, 1995.
  References: National Maritime Museum (plates)*; Polak 3237.
• Merlin, Jules: Traité pratique de voilure, ou Éxposé de méthodes simples et faciles pour calculer et couper toutes espèces de voiles, suivi d'un dictionnaire de marine à voiles, par M. Jules Merlin.
  A. Bertrand, Paris, (1863). 8vo, 312 pp, ? plates.
  Facsimile: Omega, Nice, 1995.

  Another edition 1870.
  References: Private Collection*; Lorenz; BN V. 46653; Not in Polak.

• anon.: Föreskrifter för båtstyrare.
  Iwar Haeggströms boktryckeri, Stockholm, 1868. 24mo, 10,5×6,5 cm, 21 pp.
  Facsimile: Marinstabens Offsetsanläggning, Stockholm, 1981. 100 copies.

  Instructions to coxswains in the Swedish navy.
  References: Private Collection*; Marinens Bibliotek, Copenhagen*.

• Bousquet, Gustave: Guide pratique d'architecture navale, a l'usage des capitaines de la marine du commerce appelés a surveiller les constructions et réparations de leurs navires.
  E. Lacroix, Paris, 1869. 12mo, 102 pp, ill.
  Facsimile: Editions des 4 Seigneurs, Grenoble, 1978.

  References: Private Collection*; Polak 1164.

• Steinhaus, Carl Ferdinand: Die Construction und Bemastung der Segelschiffe.
  L. Friedrichsen & Co, Hamburg, 1869. 8vo, 20,5×12 cm, (4), 137, (3) pp, ill., 7 fold. tables.
  Facsimile: H. Hamecher, Kassel, 1977.

  References: Private Collection*; Essex - Peabody Museum.

• Ulffers, Franz: Handbuch der Seemanschaft.
  Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Sohn, Berlin, 1872. 2 vols, +8vo, x, 410 pp & 41 fold. plates.
  Facsimile: 1969. Plates only (?).
  Facsimile: Arbeitskreis für historischer Schiffbau, Heidesheim, 1978. Plates only.
  Facsimile: Horst Hamecher, Kassel, 1981.

  References: Private Collection*; Andraeas 51.

• Smith, Carl: Om båtar och båtsegling. Några råd samlade av C. S:th. Illustrerade af J. Hägg.
  P.B. Eklund, Stockholm, 1873. 8vo, 112 pp.
  Facsimile: Rediviva, Stockholm, 1972. 8vo, (4), 112, (2) pp, 21 plates.

  References: Private Collection*.

• anon.: Manuel du gabier publié par ordre de M. le ministre de la Marine et des Colonies.
  Libraire militaire de J. Dumaine, Paris, 1875. 16mo, 12×7 cm, 474 pp, ill., 11 pp adv.
  Facsimile: Omega, Nice, 1985 [?].

  Other editions 1885 (3rd) and 1907 (5th).
  References: Private Collection*; Marinens Bibliotek, Copenhagen; Not in Polak.

• Brady, William N.: The Kedge-Anchor or Young Sailors' Assistant. Appertaining to the Practical Evolutions of Modern Seamanship, Rigging, Knotting, Splicing, Blocks, Purchasers, Running-rigging, and other Miscellaneous Matters, Applicable to Ships-of War and others. Illustrated with seventy engravings. Also, tables of rigging, spars, sails, blocks, canvas, cordage, chain and hemp cables, hawsers, etc., relative to every class of vessels.
  D. Appleton and Co., New York, 1876 (18th ed. improved and enlarged with additional matter, plates, and tables.). 8vo, (2), 393 pp, ill., 30 plates.
  Facsimile: Library Edition, New York, 1970.
  Facsimile: Macdonald and Jane, London, 1974.

  First edition 1841. 18th ed. first printed in 1872 then 1874, 1879, 1880, 1882, 1884, 1886, 1888, 1903.
  References: Private Collection*.

• anon.: Kommando-ord att tjena till efterrättelse på flottans skolfartyg.
  P.A. Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm, 1879. 24mo, 14,5×8 cm, 14 pp.
  Facsimile: Försvarsstabens Reprocentral, Stockholm, 1983. 100 copies.

  Words of command to be used on the sail training ships of the Royal Swedish Navy.
  References: Marinmuseum, Karlskrona*; Marinens Bibliotek, Copenhagen*.

• Staalman, G.: Handleiding tot het verkrijgen van maten en modellen van zeilen en het bewerken daarvan voor zeevarenden en de zeilmaker.
  Helder, 1892. 2 vols, 8vo, 110, xiv pp, 2 plates & oblong 4to, 34 plates.
  Facsimile: A.J. Hilgersom/Navigare, Amsterdam, 1979.

  With an introduction by M.J.C. Lucardie.
  References: Private Collection*.

• Staalman, G.: Leerboek voor den zeilmaker om door eigen oefening het berekenen der zeilen te lernen.
  Helder, 1892. 8vo, 80 pp, 5 plates.
  Facsimile: A.J. Hilgersom/Navigare, Amsterdam, 1979.

  With an introduction by M.J.C. Lucardie.
  References: Private Collection*.

• Luce, Stephen Bleecker: Text-Book of Seamanship. The equipping and handling of vessels under sail or steam. For the use of the United States Naval Academy, by Rear Admiral S.B. Luce, U.S.N. Revised by Lieutenant W.S. Benson, U.S.N., with illustrations drawn by Lieutenant S. Seabury, U.S.N.
  D. Van Nostrand, New York, 1898 (4th). +8vo, 18×10 cm, viii, 579 pp, ill., 125 part. fold. plates., 59 pp adv.
  Facsimile: Cornell Maritime Press, Cambridge, 1950. 708 pp, ill.

  Obsolete matter has been removed and new material introduced. The chapter on storms has been compiled by Mr. R.L. Lerch, under direction of the Hydrographer of the Navy Department. The descriptions and plates of sounding machines, patent logs, marine sentry, &c., have been taken from various pamphlets on those subjects. Description and plates of the steam capstan were obtained from the Bath Iron Works and those of steam steering gear from the Williamson Brothers. The chapter on organisation is omitted, lacking an established system.

  First edition 1862.
  References: Private Collection*; National Maritime Museum*; NUC.

• McLean, Ridley: The Bluejacket's Manual. United States Navy, 1902.
  The U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, 1902 (1st). 16mo, 304 pp, ill., 1 plate.
  Facsimile: U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, 1980?.

  Other editions 1917 and 1918.
  References: Private Collection*; NUC.

• Hourigan, P. W.: Manual of Seamanship for the Officer of the Deck. Ship Under Sail Alone.
  The Naval Institute, Annapolis, 1903. 12mo, 142 pp.
  Facsimile: Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1980.

  Includes a good description of handling of studdingsails.
  References: Private Collection*.

• Middendorf, Friedrich Ludwig: Bemastung und Takelung der Schiffe.
  Julius Springer, Berlin, 1903. 4to, 21×12 cm, x, 400, (1) pp, ill., 15 fold. plates.
  Facsimile: Horst Hamecher, Kassel, 1977.

  References: Private Collection*; HSMK*; Kungl. Örlogsmannasällskapet, Karlskrona; &mm..

• Öhrvall, Hjalmar: Om knutar.
  Albert Bonniers Förlag, Stockholm, 1908 (1st). 8vo, ??x?? cm, (6), 116 pp, ill.
  Facsimile: Rediviva, Stockholm, 1978 (facs. av ou 1908). 8vo, (6), 116 pp, ill;

  Second expanded edition 1916.
  References: Private Collection*.

• Estep, H. Cole: How Wooden Ships are Built. A Practical Treatise on Modern American Wooden Ship Construction with a Supplement on Laying Off Wooden Vessels.
  Penton Publ. Co., Cleveland, 1918. 4to, 27×18 cm, (12), 98, (5) pp, 199 ill.
  Facsimile: W.W. Norton & Co, New York, 1983.

  Reprinted from Marine Reveiw, Vol. 47, N.Y., 1917, pp 195-198, 231-237, 257, 283-290, 365-376, 383- .
  References: Private Collection*.

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